True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.
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There are three difficulties in authorship: to write anything worth publishing, to find honest men to publish it, and to find sensible men to read it.Charles Caleb Colton
None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.
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The seeds of repentance are sown in youth by pleasure, But the harvest is reaped in age by pain.
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He that thinks he is the happiest man, really is so. But he that thinks he is the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.
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We cannot think too highly of our nature, nor too humbly of ourselves.
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The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.
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